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by degrees57 5mo ago
I have the PayPal on Firefox problem. Once I see it, I just give up and use a credit card instead.
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by degrees57 5mo ago
Off on a bit of a tangent, I 100% agree with you, and that was probably the best feature of California's Prop 13 from 1978. After it passed, the projected income to Sacramento was rock-solid for decades. California doesn't have
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by degrees57 6mo ago
You have to get acquired by Microsoft first.
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by degrees57 8mo ago
Thank you! This was fun.
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by degrees57 8mo ago
I had to learn WordPress to help a local org, so I went ahead and did my own blog for fun: https://www.gerisch.org/
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by degrees57 11mo ago
Same. I am thankful that this sort of article shows up here.
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by degrees57 1y ago
I'd rather be a big fish in a small pond than a minnow in Microsoft's ocean.
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by degrees57 1y ago
My brother went looking for an N100 with the quietest fan, and gave it to me for Christmas two years ago. It has been an excellent little desktop with no discernable noise that I can tell. Morefine M8S, fwiw.
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by degrees57 1y ago
I was hoping to see a mention of Odex 1 by Odetics. I was working in a printed circuit board factory at the time (1983), and we got to build boards for it. Later on, there was a demo where it lifted one end of a small pickup truck off the
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by degrees57 1y ago
I donate to FutureMe.org because I like the service, and want to see it continue. I used to be able to schedule a monthly donation through Paypal (I think), but something happened, and now I have to remember to send a donation out every ye
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by degrees57 1y ago
Yes, and in my opinion, this was what killed Slashdot.
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by degrees57 1y ago
I agree with you, and think that if Slashdot were to do a rebirth, it might succeed. Of course, they'd have to figure out what went wrong and put in mechanisms to prevent that. But the five vote options (insightful, interesting, funny
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by degrees57 1y ago
I switched my default search engine in my browser to perplexity.ai a few months ago and am super happy with it. The only time I use Google anymore is to specifically visit www.google.com and put site:example.com in the search field, when I
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by degrees57 1y ago
I always liked that on SuSE, I had my choice with YaST of either the Ncurses interface or the GUI X Window System. The functionality was identical, but sometimes a GUI is pleasant.
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by degrees57 2y ago
Dude, you're taking the easy way out. Please go purist and pull the wiring boards out of the closet.
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by degrees57 2y ago
Thank you; I didn't know that Brave has a peer-to-peer sync.
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by degrees57 2y ago
Thank you. I was unaware of this.
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by degrees57 2y ago
I'd like to ask if there is a bookmark sync function and plugin sync function in any of these alternatives. It does seem to me that Mozilla corporation management has become corrupted, and will only get worse; so I'd like to move
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by degrees57 2y ago
Okay, that actually made me laugh. Thanks.
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by degrees57 2y ago
My mom had subscribed to Scientific American for more than twenty years (maybe 30), but for this very reason stopped her subscription a few years ago. It had turned from informing its readers about science to political posturing. She was
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by degrees57 2y ago
I'm not a fan of email + magic link. I know of two security gateways which "click" on the link to check to see if it ends up going to a known malicious website. So then the end user calls in a trouble ticket, because the lo
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by degrees57 3y ago
I learned COBOL in college just to learn it, and I loved the verbosity of it. Verbosity was kind of the point: if you name your variables properly, you have self-documenting code. Yes, the processing COBOL does is restricting, but then my
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by degrees57 3y ago
Agreed about learning bookkeeping. I was a programmer on a minicomputer decades ago, and when the bookkeeper spoke debits and credits at me, I stared back like a deer in the headlights (I had an engineering education). When I asked the bo
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by degrees57 3y ago
I'm quite happy with my PHEV. I charge at night at home, and have even gone a whole month without needing to get gasoline (in town driving only). But when I need to drive a long distance, it's a complete non-issue to find a gas
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by degrees57 4y ago
Yes, generally the taxpayer pays. I work for a County local government. When we lose a case, we have our litigation insurance pay. Then the insurance policy rate immediately goes up. Sometimes the government employee does something so ag
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by degrees57 4y ago
I don't think they keep them for very long. I know that my organization looked at purchasing Smarsh, which hooks in to the API that providers present so that Smarsh can do it's archiving. IIRC, there was a short time limit (not
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by degrees57 4y ago
My school district got one; I assume they did accounting on it. RPG would be a good fit for accounting. But also, they taught programming to us students. I learned FORTRAN on one of these in 1979. 4K RAM and punched cards.
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by degrees57 4y ago
I thought about it more, and you are correct that Reddit enables private subreddits. My circle of friends on the Internet have one - but we've stopped using it. For me, a problem was that Reddit itself became polluted by influencers,
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by degrees57 4y ago
Reddit suffers from intruders trying to influence. With Discord, you won't find my group of friends to intrude upon, because we won't invite you.
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by degrees57 4y ago
Yes, somewhat. It started as email -only, but then later added NextCloud file services. The hardware is passively cooled, so nice and quiet. Although I'm sad that the system is going to shut down, I'm glad that they are doing th

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